Un racconto per restare. L’Ecomuseo Casilino tra narrazione territoriale e metanarrazione

In the rich literature in Italy concerning ecomuseums, there has been a lack of serious discussion on rhetorical and discursive spaces. Regarding the “three pillars” of the ecomuseum indicated by De Varine (territory-community-patrimony), the essay suggests that it is necessary to analyse the discursive and narrative component of ecomuseums in the dual meaning of local storytelling and ecomuseum metanarrative. The case study examined is that of the Casilino Ecomuseum in Rome, which precisely through the storytelling was able to produce effective counter-narratives in defining a different ‘sense of place’.